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EX-SAINTS STANDOUT GLEASON EPITOMIZES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HALL OF FAMER 1C
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Identity questions loom as UNO mulls ‘rebrand’
La. Legislature doles out wins, losses
BY BEN MYERS and JAMES FINN Staff writers
Louisiana’s legislative session ended last week in a complex brew of wins and losses for New Orleans’ local interests, many of whom found themselves at odds with each other throughout the three-month assembly. New Orleans state lawmakers headed off attempts to enact controversial changes to their city and secured millions of dollars for local projects. A fight between the City Council and Mayor LaToya Cantrell over who holds power to award sanitation contracts ended in a win for the council and French Quarter business interests. Lawmakers also blocked the owner of the city’s Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots from leaving the state. And a bipartisan measure to move the beleaguered University of New Orleans into the LSU
ä See SESSION, page 8A
TOPS to see some changes Top-scoring students qualify for new award BY PATRICK WALL Staff writer
Louisiana will cover the full price of college tuition for a small group of stellar students, under newly passed legislation — but it won’t give more money to thousands of students whose state scholarships cover only part of their tuition bill. Top-scoring high schoolers will qualify for a new “Excellence” award through the state’s TOPS scholarship program under House Bill 77, which the Louisiana Legislature passed last week and Gov. Jeff Landry is expected to sign. Starting this fall, the award will
ä See TOPS, page 10A
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Prospective students and their families tour the University of New Orleans campus in 2024.
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A shift to LSU system could bring back LSUNO name BY MARIE FAZIO Staff writer
On a wintry day in 1969, thousands of Louisiana State University in New Orleans students crammed into the library where the letters “LSUNO” had been strung across a hallway. As student body president Malcom Earhardt gave an impassioned speech, someone snipped off the L and S, which came “clattering down to wild applause,” according to TimesPicayune reports at the time. “As part of the (LSU) board’s system, we find ourselves continually used as a political football,” Earnhardt told the crowd. “As students, we simply do not belong there.”
The school known today as the University of New Orleans began life as part of the LSU system. After years of rallies and student advocacy, it was renamed UNO in 1974. In 2011, amid tensions between LSU and UNO leadership, the university left LSU’s oversight entirely. Nearly 60 years later, UNO is on the precipice of reverting to that system — and, possibly, to the LSUNO name. A bill that would shift UNO from the University of Louisiana system back to LSU is headed to Gov. Jeff Landry to be signed into law, though it still needs approval from UNO’s accreditation agency.
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Gov. John J. McKeithen speaks to students at Louisiana ä See UNO, page 10A State University in New Orleans.
Trump considers U.S. attack on Iran President says decision to come within two weeks
his mind within two weeks on whether the U.S. military will get directly involved in the conflict, seeking to keep open the door to diplomacy on BY SAM MEDNICK, Tehran’s nuclear NATALIE MELZER program. and JON GAMBRELL “Based on the Associated Press fact that there’s Trump a substantial BEERSHEBA, Israel — Israel and Iran exchanged more attacks on chance of negotiations that may Thursday as President Donald or may not take place with Iran Trump said he would make up in the near future, I will make
my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters, reading out Trump’s statement. Trump has been weighing whether to attack Iran by striking its well-defended Fordo uranium enrichment facility, which is buried under a mountain and widely considered to be out of reach of all but America’s “bunker-buster” bombs. Earlier in the day, Israel’s defense minister threatened Iran’s
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supreme leader after Iranian missiles crashed into a major hospital in southern Israel and hit residential buildings near Tel Aviv, wounding at least 240 people. As rescuers wheeled patients out of the smoldering hospital, Israeli warplanes launched their latest attack on Iran’s nuclear program. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz blamed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
ä See IRAN, page 6A
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